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It is based on Microsoft Report Builder (formerly SQL Server Reporting Services Report Builder), but has been optimized for the Power BI service. Please let us know your feedback in the comments below, and keep watching the Power BI blog for additional announcements for Paginated Reports over the next several weeks.Power BI Report Builder is MicrosoftвЂ™s design tool for building Paginated reports in Power BI. It provides Power BI report authors the ability to create, view and export paginated report content just like their organizations can today within Power BI Premium.

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We encourage all users to download and start using Power BI Report Builder to experience the value paginated reports can provide their organizations today. We understand that many users will be looking for an easy way to move their existing content to Power BI moving forward, and weвЂ™re evaluating options around building a meaningful migration experience for your existing content. The focus of this initial release is around creating and editing new Paginated Reports built specifically for the Power BI service, so we donвЂ™t allow connecting to your existing SSRS instances from Power BI Report Builder to open or save reports.

You can only load from your computer currently, but we will have an end to end publishing experience from Power BI in an upcoming release prior to GA. Upload to Power BIДЄfter you have saved your RDL file, you can then go to the Get Data screen within the service. Rather, it is the report definition that is saved in the file, which includes connection information, layout details, etc. Unlike Power BI Desktop reports, no actual report data is stored in your saved report. File FormatДЇor users unfamiliar with paginated reports, the file format used for these reports is the RDL extension.

WeвЂ™ve taken steps to hide features that arenвЂ™t planned to be supported, or greyed out those weвЂ™ve not yet enabled (like subreports, for example), to help you make sure the reports you create will work in the Power BI service as you and your users expect them to. Create ReportsДЄfter connecting to your data and creating your datasets, the report creation experience works just as it does in the current authoring tools for SQL Server Reporting Services. Keep watching this blog for additional announcements each Friday this month on when these are enabled in the Power BI service for your use. Power BI Premium Datasets via XMLA connectivity (using the SQL Server Analysis Services connection option).WeвЂ™re also include additional data sources that will be supported in the Power BI service by the end of April вЂ“ WeвЂ™ve restricted the list of available data sources in Power BI Report Builder to those we support in Power BI service now.

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To download and install Power BI Report Builder, you can click on the COG icon in the title bar of Power BI site and select the Report Builder option.

In a future update, youвЂ™ll be able to both open and publish from/to the Power BI Service.

Export reports to file formats such as Microsoft Excel or PDF.

Preview reports in HTML or print format.

Create and use report parameters and other interactive features.

Use the Report Builder ribbon to quickly add items your reports, launch table, chart, and map wizards, and format your report data.

By creating a new authoring tool for paginated reports in Power BI, separate from SQL Server Reporting Services Report Builder, we can provide a familiar experience, but specifically optimize for publishing to the Power BI Service. This application will act as the primary authoring experience for paginated reports in the Power BI service going forward.

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It is a free, standalone Windows Desktop application that can be downloaded from the Power BI site.

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To kick off our series of posts this month weвЂ™re calling вЂњNew Feature FridayвЂќ, weвЂ™re pleased to announce the initial release of Power BI Report Builder, the latest companion application for Power BI that lets you author Paginated Reports.

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